2014 vs 2015:macbook pro HELP!

so i wanted to make a purchase for a Macbook Pro, my friend said that i should get the macbook pro 2014 retina display, instead of the newest one and avoid all the fees reasons being i want to play games (not huge graphic games) like second life and The sims 4 on my device, I'm huge on graphics and i hate choppy games, my friend says that the Haswell Processor 2014 macbook pro is enough for my needs rather then getting the macbook updated version, soon the prices will drop for the 2014 edition and i can get the Macbook i want for a affordable price.... any tech savvy people got any advice... oh and i don't want the macbook air lol

Apple doesn't sell the 2014 MacBook Pro anymore (maybe they do on amazon or ebay or something). I would go for the newest one if I was you.

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booting again and trying to format the partition with winblows. Winblows cannot install because of the GPT setup.
delete partition leaving blank space, boot in efi, and then allow windows to make the partition. This resulted in windows making 2 partitions (so far so good) and getting all the way to the end before letting me know that I am right back to trial 1 and it cannot update the boot configuration.
So I go into mac to delete these two partitions. The main one deletes, and the little one wont.
So i go into recovery. Still cannot delete partition.
I was forced to TOTALLY wipe the drive, and I am not sitting here looking at a screen telling me that in 4 hours the mac will have downloaded and installed Mavericks, and I will hopefully be back where I started a day ago. This is ridiculous.
So far I STILL do not have windows, and I am not really any closer. This is total and complete bologna, and I am about ready to return the macbook, and but a piece of $h1t winblows machine simply because it will ACTUALLY do what I HAVE to do. It would suck, because I prefer the Macbook, but if it flat out won't do what I need it to AND apple won't put enough effort into their compatibility software, I am going to be forced to make a compromise.
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3) Windows should boot on the apple created USB flash drive. It will walk you through the install. The first thing you need to do is format the partition that the apple bootcamp utility created. You will most likely be given 4 partitions to choose from. Pick the partition that matches in size the one you created on the OSX side and select to format that partition. Once formatted you can hit next and go forward.
4) Just a note.... if your eyes are as old/bad as mine, when Win 8.1 is installing it is not smart enough to know to scale objects and so displays everything in the native retina resolution. I literally needed a magnifying glass to check the serial number I typed in to be sure it was correct.
5) Let the install do it's thing and finish. When it completes and reboots, it will default to boot into windows. This is probably not bad, as if you are like me there is then a whole host of things to install and multiple reboots are required. Before I did a bunch of installs however, I wanted to test to make sure I could go back and fourth between the two OS's. Here is where things get interesting. On my install, once bootcamp was complete and windows 8.1 was installed, booting my MBP no longer gives the gray screen on boot. The screen is now black. At first this had me fooled into thinking something was wrong. When it reboots and you just see the very faint change in the black screen you need to hit the alt/opt button. Better yet, just have it shutdown and then hit the on button and hold the alt button next. You will now be given two drives to boot from, the OSX side and the Windows side. The recovery disk is no longer present.
6) I picked the OSX side and booted into Yosemite. Everything on the Yosemite side is mostly right. OSX sees the bootcamp drive. I use the Paragon utilities that allow me to R/W NTFS from OSX and R/W HFS from Windows. On the OSX side I can R/W the Bootcamp drive without an issue. It is curious, however, that if I go to the system configuration and select Startup Disk, my windows drive is not visible. I don't know the reason but it does not give me an option.
7) I reboot the MBP again and this time I go into windows. On the Windows side Win 8.1, for some reason, is not seeing the OSX drive. I can to into System Management tools and the partition is clearly there but at the desktop level there is no HFS drive. For what I do this is not a huge deal but it is curious as with my old MBP, Win7 and Mavericks everything was visible on both sides. If I go to the BootCamp Utilities and select Startup Drive, the utility on the windows side DOES see the OSX partition and gives me the choice to make OSX the default boot OS if I want or I can select Windows too.
So far everything works, sans the inability to see my OSX drives on the Windows side. I've not used Windows 8.1 yet and so now I'm quickly discovering what all of the fuss is about. I don't want to turn this into a Win8.1 rant but holy crap..... what did Redmond do? Anyway, I found enough copious threads on the web to get 8.1 almost looking like 7 so I'm happy. This was a major PITA however.
PS - One last note. All of this came about because my poor mid 2011 17" MBP finally started suffering the graphic adapter fail that so many have been seeing. Really torxs my chain as I really loved this trusty laptop. Sans the graphic card issue I should have been able to run it another 5 years at least but turned itself into an unreliable time bomb that I just can't trust. Its a real shame but it is what it is. The new 15" MBP are very nice, very fast and very well built but I miss my 17" screen for certain.
I hope this helps someone so they don't have to go through the pain I did.

Update to Yosemite killed my MacBook Pro HELP!!!

I updated my MacBook Pro to Yosemite and it has dragged it down incredibly. Every time I click, open, close, type, delete, scroll and move it takes about 15 seconds to process. May not sound to long but it adds up and when it happens for everything I am doing its impossible to get anything done, feels like I have dial up again. I am rather computer illiterate so I have no idea what to do, and am afraid of accidentally destroying my Mac. Only thing I have managed to do was run a diagnostic with Etrecheck. Please HELP!!
Problem description:
i updated to Yosemite and my Mac has slowed down significantly, almost unusable, every action takes what feels like 20 seconds to respond
EtreCheck version: 2.0.11 (98)
Report generated December 1, 2014 at 10:34:41 PM EST
Hardware Information: ℹ️
MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012) (Verified)
MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro9,2
1 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU: 2-core
4 GB RAM Upgradeable
BANK 0/DIMM0
2 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok
BANK 1/DIMM0
2 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok
Bluetooth: Good - Handoff/Airdrop2 supported
Wireless: en1: 802.11 a/b/g/n
Video Information: ℹ️
Intel HD Graphics 4000 -
Color LCD 1280 x 800
System Software: ℹ️
OS X 10.10.1 (14B25) - Uptime: 2 days 4:1:7
Disk Information: ℹ️
APPLE HDD HTS547550A9E384 disk0 : (500.11 GB)
S.M.A.R.T. Status: Verified
EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB
Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted> [Recovery]: 650 MB
Macintosh HD (disk1) / [Startup]: 498.88 GB (246.64 GB free)
Encrypted AES-XTS UnlockedConverting
Core Storage: disk0s2 499.25 GB Online
MATSHITADVD-R   UJ-8A8
USB Information: ℹ️
Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)
Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
Apple Inc. BRCM20702 Hub
Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
Thunderbolt Information: ℹ️
Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus
Gatekeeper: ℹ️
Mac App Store and identified developers
Kernel Extensions: ℹ️
/System/Library/Extensions
[loaded] com.logmein.driver.LogMeInSoundDriver (1.0.3 - SDK 10.5) Support
[not loaded] com.nike.sportwatch (1.0.0) Support
Launch Agents: ℹ️
[not loaded] com.logmein.logmeingui.plist Support
[not loaded] com.logmein.logmeinguiagent.plist Support
[not loaded] com.logmein.logmeinguiagentatlogin.plist Support
[running] com.nike.nikeplusconnect.plist Support
Launch Daemons: ℹ️
[loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist Support
[not loaded] com.logmein.logmeinblanker.plist Support
[not loaded] com.logmein.logmeinserver.plist Support
[invalid?] com.logmein.raupdate.plist Support
[loaded] com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist Support
User Launch Agents: ℹ️
[loaded] com.adobe.ARM.[...].plist Support
[loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist Support
[running] com.spotify.webhelper.plist Support
User Login Items: ℹ️
Garmin Express Service Application (/Applications/Garmin Express.app/Contents/Library/LoginItems/Garmin Express Service.app)
iTunesHelper Application (/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunesHelper.app)
Spotify Application (/Applications/Spotify.app)
Internet Plug-ins: ℹ️
FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 15.0.0.239 - SDK 10.6 Support
Default Browser: Version: 600 - SDK 10.10
AdobePDFViewerNPAPI: Version: 11.0.09 - SDK 10.6 Support
AdobePDFViewer: Version: 11.0.09 - SDK 10.6 Support
Flash Player: Version: 15.0.0.239 - SDK 10.6 Support
LogMeIn: Version: 1.0.935 - SDK 10.7 Support
LogMeInSafari32: Version: 1.0.935 - SDK 10.7 Support
QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3
SharePointBrowserPlugin: Version: 14.0.0 Support
Silverlight: Version: 4.1.10329.0 Support
DirectorShockwave: Version: 12.0.3r133 - SDK 10.6 Support
User Internet Plug-ins: ℹ️
Google Earth Web Plug-in: Version: 7.1 Support
3rd Party Preference Panes: ℹ️
Flash Player Support
Time Machine: ℹ️
Mobile backups: OFF
Auto backup: NO - Auto backup turned off
Volumes being backed up:
Macintosh HD: Disk size: 498.88 GB Disk used: 252.23 GB
Destinations:
G-DRIVE slim [Local]
Total size: 499.76 GB
Total number of backups: 16
Oldest backup: 2012-08-10 01:44:35 +0000
Last backup: 2014-10-04 21:12:41 +0000
Size of backup disk: Too small
Backup size 499.76 GB < (Disk used 252.23 GB X 3)
Top Processes by CPU: ℹ️
      2% sysmond
      1% SystemUIServer
      1% corestoraged
      1% Safari
      1% Activity Monitor
Top Processes by Memory: ℹ️
133 MB Google Chrome
85 MB Google Chrome Helper
64 MB Safari
60 MB Mail
58 MB com.apple.WebKit.WebContent
Virtual Memory Information: ℹ️
79 MB Free RAM
1.41 GB Active RAM
1.30 GB Inactive RAM
722 MB Wired RAM
12.49 GB Page-ins
268 MB Page-outs

Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
The title of the Console window should be All Messages. If it isn't, select
          SYSTEM LOG QUERIES ▹ All Messages
from the log list on the left. If you don't see that list, select
          View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar at the top of the screen. Click the Clear Display icon in the toolbar. Then take one of the actions that you're having trouble with. Select any messages that appear in the Console window. Copy them to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message by pressing command-V.
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Please don't indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
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